Four Sides of the Story - Netflix

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Through multiple narrators, perspectives and first-person accounts,
Four Sides of the Story explores iconic sports moments. This
three-part series offers four unique angles on popular sports moments
and topics.

Type: Documentary

Languages: English

Status: Running

Runtime: 30 minutes

Premier: 2017-07-31

Four Sides of the Story - Fantastic Four - Netflix

The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in American
comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The
Fantastic Four #1 (cover dated Nov. 1961), which helped to usher in a
new level of realism in the medium. The Fantastic Four was the first
superhero team created by editor/co-plotter Stan Lee and
artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby, who developed a collaborative approach to
creating comics with this title that they would use from then on. The
four individuals traditionally associated with the Fantastic Four, who
gained superpowers after exposure to cosmic rays during a scientific
mission to outer space, are Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards), a
scientific genius and the leader of the group, who can stretch his body
into incredible lengths and shapes; the Invisible Girl (Susan “Sue”
Storm; later “Invisible Woman”), who eventually married Reed, who can
render herself invisible and later project powerful invisible force
fields; the Human Torch (Johnny Storm), Sue's younger brother, who can
generate flames, surround himself with them and fly; and the monstrous
Thing (Ben Grimm), their grumpy but benevolent friend, a former college
football star and Reed's college roommate as well as a good pilot, who
possesses tremendous superhuman strength, durability, and endurance due
to the nature of his stone-like flesh. Since their original 1961
introduction, the Fantastic Four have been portrayed as a somewhat
dysfunctional, yet loving, family. Breaking convention with other comic
book archetypes of the time, they would squabble and hold grudges both
deep and petty and eschewed anonymity or secret identities in favor of
celebrity status. The team is also well known for its recurring
encounters with characters such as the villainous monarch Doctor Doom,
the planet-devouring Galactus, the sea-dwelling prince Namor, the
spacefaring Silver Surfer and the shape-changing alien Skrulls. The
Fantastic Four have been adapted into other media, including four
animated series and four live-action films.

Four Sides of the Story - The Human Torch solo - Netflix

The Human Torch was given a solo strip in Strange Tales in 1962 in order
to bolster sales of the title. The series began in Strange Tales #101
(October 1962), in 12- to 14-page stories plotted by Lee and initially
scripted by his brother, Larry Lieber, and drawn by penciller Kirby and
inker Dick Ayers. Here, Johnny was seen living with his older sister,
Susan, in fictional Glenview, Long Island, New York, where he continued
high school and, with youthful naiveté, attempted to maintain a “secret
identity”. In Strange Tales #106 (March 1963), Johnny discovered that
his friends and neighbors knew of his dual identity all along, from
Fantastic Four news reports, but were humoring him. Supporting
characters included Johnny's girlfriend, Doris Evans, usually in
consternation as Johnny cheerfully flew off to battle bad guys. She was
seen again in a 1973 issue of Fantastic Four, having become a heavyset
but cheerful wife and mother. Ayers took over the penciling after ten
issues, later followed by original Golden Age Human Torch creator Carl
Burgos and others. The Fantastic Four made occasional cameo appearances,
and the Thing became a co-star with issue #123 (Aug. 1964). The Human
Torch shared the split book Strange Tales with fellow feature Doctor
Strange for the majority of its run, before being replaced in issue #135
(August 1965) by Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.. The Silver Age
stories were republished in 1974, along with some Golden Age Human Torch
stories, in a short-lived ongoing Human Torch series. A later ongoing
solo series in Marvel's manga-influenced Tsunami imprint, Human Torch,
ran 12 issues (June 2003 – June 2004), followed by the five-issue
limited series Spider-Man/Human Torch (March–July 2005), an untold tales
team-up arc spanning the course of their friendship.